OpenID: WTF?

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I don’t know what the fuck is going on, but I like it: you can’t swing a cat these days without hitting a blog post or press release related to OpenID. AOL, CardSpace/OpenID collaboration, CC+VRM+OpenID, and now Jyte…just check out the Technorati image below. [Posts in English tagged “openid” over the last 180 days.]

In the space of six months, Open ID appears to have gone from being a relatively obscure identity-geek amusement to the dominant relatively obscure identity-geek amusement.